Pete Howlett
Well-known member
I have 2 personal guitar projects slatted for late in the year and now a third which is a client commission. This is an extrordinary excursion for me because I vowed never to make a comission guitar again. However there is a good story to this one:
In 2008 Jack Rose contacted me thanking me for the Weissenborn I made that he bought in Michigan in the late 1990s. You can see and hear Jack playing it here:
Before I could get to meet him he died at the tragically young age of 38 in 2009. I keep getting people requesting me to make them a guitar like his and have resisited or set a ridiculous price on it.... I accepted the comission this time because I want to make these Hawaiian related instruments again. Not got the deposit yet but as soon as this is sorted I will let you know that Pete Howlett has been fully seduced to the dark side again and will be making Weissenborn style lap steel guitars again
Looking now for koa Weissenborn sets. Any Ideas. Will also at the same time get my Weissenlapuke done in honour of this deviation from the path!
In 2008 Jack Rose contacted me thanking me for the Weissenborn I made that he bought in Michigan in the late 1990s. You can see and hear Jack playing it here:
Before I could get to meet him he died at the tragically young age of 38 in 2009. I keep getting people requesting me to make them a guitar like his and have resisited or set a ridiculous price on it.... I accepted the comission this time because I want to make these Hawaiian related instruments again. Not got the deposit yet but as soon as this is sorted I will let you know that Pete Howlett has been fully seduced to the dark side again and will be making Weissenborn style lap steel guitars again
Looking now for koa Weissenborn sets. Any Ideas. Will also at the same time get my Weissenlapuke done in honour of this deviation from the path!
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